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Missouri 2012 FALL The magazine of Missouri Western State University women’s athletics: today & yesterday page 14 Check out the Life-Stage Gift Planner ™ ! At various stages of our lives, we all deal with different issues, financial and otherwise. These stages of life need to be taken into account when you are planning your gift for Missouri Western. The Life-Stage Gift Planner™ will help guide you through the financial strategies and possible charitable solutions to the tax issues you may be facing. For more information on the Life-Stage Gift Planner™, please go to www.missouriwestern.giftplans.org contact Jerry Pickman at 816-271-5648, or email him at [email protected]. MWSU Foundation Spratt Hall Room 111 4525 Downs Drive St. Joseph, MO 64507 816-271-5647 ON THE COVER: Soccer player Ashlyn Castillo, tennis player Alicia Jenkins, and volleyball player Hannah Zimmerman, along with the softball team, grace our cover highlighting women’s athletics. Photos by Eric Callow ’96. Contents The Missouri Western Magazine is a publication of the University Advancement Office for alumni and friends of Missouri Western State University and its predecessor institutions. Departments 2 Campus News Fall 2012 • Volume 10 Number 3 12 Sports EDITOR Diane Holtz 18 Alumni News DESIGN EDITOR 27 Alumnotes Kendy Jones ’94 DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI SERVICES Colleen Kowich Features ALUMNI BOARD Robert Sigrist ’95, President 14 Women’s Athletics: Today and Yesterday Shelby Coxon ’99, First Vice President The first women’s intercollegiate sports teams came to Missouri Western in David Slater ’82, Second Vice President Randy Klein ’78, Immediate Past President 1975; read how they came about and what is happening in women’s athletics on campus today. Bryan Alford ’12, Sheryl Bremer ’81, Carole Dunn ’91, John Fabsits ’04, Gini Fite ’01, Bill Gondring ’56, Luke Gorham ’06, Diane Hook ’90, Claudia James ’85, Brian 22 Dishing Up Healthy Jardes ’05, James Jeffers ’73, Linda Kerner ’73, Bruce Kneib ’84, Brandy Meeks ’07, Kendell Misemer ’82, Arthur Today, more and more people seem to be taking a good, long look at their Montgomery ’89, Molly Pierce ’77, Zachary Ramsay ’02, eating habits and lifestyles, and many have made an effort to try to adopt a Melissa Rewinkel Taylor ’93, Ralph Schank ’82, Tom more healthy approach to eating. Read about three alumni and two students Schneider ’64, Katy Schwartz ’08, Angie Springs ’02, and the choices they’ve made. Jennifer Stanek ’99, Mary Vaughan ’79, Nichi Yeager ’99. FOUNDATION BOARD Jim Carolus, Chair Corky Marquart ’84, Vice Chair Pete Gray, Secretary John Wilson, Treasurer Ted Allison, Drew Brown, Michelle Cebulko ’93, Stephen Cotter ’78, Pat Dillon, Ed Haffey ’62, Stephen Hamilton, 14 Cindy Hausman, Judith Hausman, Diane Hook ’90, Jason Horn ’95, Jennifer Kneib ’89, Chris Looney, Al Purcell, David Roberts, J.L. Robertson, LaVell Rucker ’03, Lee Sawyer, Dave Shinneman, Melody Smith ’87, Kylee Strough ’03, Jon Styslinger, Robert Vartabedian, Julie Woods ’96, Zack Workman ’74, Seth Wright, Chuck Zimmerman and Jonathan Yordy, executive director. BOARD OF GOVERNORS Kylee Strough ’03, Chair Dirck Clark ’85, Vice Chair Leo Blakley ’62, Dan Danford ’78, Lesley Graves, Tommye Quilty ’96, Deborah Smith ’79, Brian Shewell, 22 Student Governor. MISSOURI WESTERN MAGAZINE 4525 Downs Drive, Spratt Hall 106 St. Joseph, MO 64507 816- 271-5651 www.missouriwestern.edu/magazine [email protected] Missouri Western State University is an equal opportunity institution. 12 CAMPUS News Skype enables successful Poland practicum lthough it may not be too unusual The two class times were back-to- of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Afor students to complete an back and met once a week at the start Directors in Portland, Ore., this past internship abroad, there’s one small of the semester. Because of the time spring. She said it was well received by catch when social work students try to difference, Amanda would go online at the conference’s attendees. do that for their practicum – they are 5 p.m., and sometimes be on until 11 Advancing technology, Pam said, is required to report to class once a week. p.m., with an hour break. Later in the the “new normal,” and universities need But Amanda Luzsicza ’12, and Pam semester, she met individually with Ali, to embrace it and make it work for Clary, her instructor and coordinator via Skype. them. “We need to have options for our of the practicum program, found a way Amanda said she appreciated that students.” around the distance issue. Amanda she could Skype with Pam even outside Because they were on the internet, completed her social work practicum of class hours. “If I ever just needed to Pam said she and her students had to in Warsaw, Poland this past spring and talk, she was there. I can’t stress enough be very careful in the class to protect graduated from Missouri Western in how supportive the professors were.” the confidentiality of the students’ May, because Pam was willing to figure Pam is convinced Skyping could work experiences with clients and personnel. out a way to make it work. Thanks for students in a variety of situations, Amanda said her time in Poland to Skype (a service that allows users not just those abroad. There have been was a wonderful experience for her and to communicate by voice, video, and students who completed practica more her husband and their son, and after instant message over the Internet), than an hour away, she said, and Skyping the practicum, she volunteered for the Amanda was “present” for every class. would have saved them from driving in Academy until they returned to the “That’s what social workers do,” Pam to campus every week. United States. said. “We’re all about thinking outside Pam presented, “The Skype’s “I went across the world and the the box and asking, ‘How can we do the Limit: An Innovative Teaching professors still involved me. Skyping things better?’” Technique That Supports Students in in I still felt like I was a part of the Last fall, Amanda, who was getting their Field Education Settings,” at a school,” Amanda said. ready to complete her last semester national conference for the Association as a social work major the following spring with a 456-hour practicum, An Evening of Cabaret found out her husband, Frank ’99, was being transferred to Warsaw for a temporary assignment. “I went into panic mode when I found out. I ran to my professors, and they were totally supportive,” she said. Amanda was hired for her practicum by the European Academy of Diplomacy, and Pam set it up so Amanda could be Skyped in for not only her seminar class, but also a research class with Dr. Ali Kamali, another required course in the program. Pam said they set their chairs in a circle in her class and attached the camera to the back of one of the chairs. They would move the camera around so Amanda could view whoever was speaking. Music students entertained members of the Missouri Western Arts Society at the society’s annual meeting this past spring. The students, directed by Dr. Susan Carter, presented “An Evening of Cabaret.” 2 MISSOURI WESTERN MAGAZINE www.missouriwestern.edu President’s Perspective Dear Alumni Greek Village on campus! and Friends, Applied t’s here – it’s new – and everyone is Monica, a junior who has always lived learning is one Iexcited about it! That’s the word on the on campus, said she had been thinking of the hallmarks addition of Greek quarters on campus about applying to be an RA and thought of a Missouri this fall when suites in Juda Hall were set the inauguration of Greek quarters was Western education. aside for Greek sororities and fraternities. a good time for her to do it. “I was really The university’s They filled up quickly, and nine suites, all excited to be in a Greek village. I think commitment to on the west side, are now housing Greeks it’s a great opportunity to get Greeks providing students with relevant experiences from five of the university’s 10 Greek more involved on campus.” is well recognized, and is included in organizations – Alpha Sigma Alpha, She believes many Greeks currently Missouri statutes as our statewide mission. Sigma Sigma Sigma, Tau Kappa Epsilon, live off campus, so she’s hoping the This combination of theoretical education Phi Delta Theta, and Alpha Gamma residential area reserved for them will in the classroom and practical knowledge Delta. bring them back on campus and get through applied learning serves our Mark Stier, director of residential them more involved in university life. graduates well. life, said campus housing for Greeks was Several who are living in the Greek One program that is a great source a goal of Missouri Western’s president, quarters this fall, in fact, had been living of pride is the Craig School of Business Dr. Robert Vartabedian. It is part of an off campus last year. Entrepreneurship Challenge in which initiative to not only increase the number “I think the Greek students are outstanding seniors can earn an opportunity of Greeks who live on campus, but to extremely excited to live in the Greek to own/operate a Rocky Mountain Chocolate increase the number of students who are quarters and excited for the possibilities Factory store upon graduation. Through this involved in Greek social organizations. that go along with living within close program, established only three years ago, “It provides a deeper sense of proximity of one another and building a Missouri Western graduates now operate nine community for Greeks,” Mark said of stronger brother- and sisterhood,” said stores throughout the nation.

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